Peter Sutcliffe, the British serial killer known as the “Yorkshire Ripper” who terrorized the nation in the 1970s and was serving a life sentence for his crimes, died Nov. 13 at age 74. The ...

The Ripper, a new Netflix NFLX four-part docuseries on the Yorkshire Ripper murders in late 1970s England, is now on the streaming platform. The choice of title for the series was criticized by ...

Peter Sutcliffe, a former grave digger, was serving concurrent life sentences for killing 13 women in Yorkshire and northwest England between 1975 and 1980. Skip to Article. Set weather.

That is, until the bodies started piling up over a five-year period. Clearly, as the series shows, the Yorkshire police force loathed prostitutes — or any women who stepped outside the social order.